Public Administration Studies: The Digital Trajectory

Digital Agenda and E-learning in Italian Public Administration

In this paper we present a long experimentation conducted by the Trento Chamber of Commerce in the usage of elearning and SCORM-based material in order to introduce companies to innovative practices, specifically the use of the Digital Signature and the Certified Electronic email. These two tools have become now mandatory in the Italian Public Administration, thus forcing not only this componen...

Ethics in Public Administration

The modern world has seen an increase in interest in the areas related to the ethics of the sovereign good. A number of studies have focused on this subject matter and several academicians have exposed a number of ethical and philosophical dilemmas related to the concept of ethics in public administration. Despite the increasing number of studies that have focused on the importance of administr...

Modelling Public Administration Portals

Portals for the public administration (PA) are Internet gateways leading to a broad range of services, devoted to a great number of users. The offered services can potentially be all the ones offered by the PA offices. The final users involved are potentially all the citizens, thus ranging from young people to retired ones, to impaired ones. The benefits offered by putting PA services on the In...

Insights – Public Administration

The Public Administration of Politics, or What Political Science Could Learn from Public Administration

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